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Member Spotlight: Arkansas Community Colleges

The Open Education Network (OEN) extends a warm welcome to Arkansas Community Colleges (ACC), a newer member of the OEN community.

Posted on August 22nd, 2022

June Office Hours: Happy Five Years of Office Hours

Well, hello everybody and welcome to our 56th Office Hours and also our Office Hours session that marks five years of Rebus Community and the Open Education Network coming together to talk about various topics in open.

Posted on June 29th, 2022

Celebrating a Decade of the Open Textbook Library: The Recap

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In the sixth and concluding post in this series, we’re revisiting some highlights of our 2022 birthday celebration. The library’s milestone prompted us to reflect on challenges overcome, appreciate meaningful progress, and extend our sincere thanks to all who’ve played a role in the library’s growth and success to date. That includes you! 

Posted on June 9th, 2022

Pub101: Preparing to Share

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Pub101 is a free, informal, online orientation to open textbook publishing. This May 25, 2022, session is the final entry in the spring 2022 series. Host Carla Myers from Miami University welcomes Kevin Hawkins of the University of North Texas Libraries, Karen Lauritsen from the Open Education Network, and Amanda Larson from Ohio State University for a discussion of printing, sharing and selling open textbooks.

Posted on June 1st, 2022

May Office Hours: What Happens When My Author Leaves? Policies to Support OER

We are joined by Sam Arungwa, who is Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, Director of Utah Prevention Science Institute at Utah State University, as well as Rama Kaba-Demanin who is Program Lead at Open Library at eCampus Ontario. And so we’re going to talk today about what happens after the OER has been out there for a while. What happens when an author leaves? How do we sustain our programs and our resources in the longer-term?

Posted on May 26th, 2022

Pub101: Working with Authors

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Pub101 is a free, informal, online orientation to open textbook publishing. This May 18, 2022, session is hosted by Anita Walz of Virginia Tech. Anita welcomes insightful guests from Cleveland State University, the University of Delaware, and The Rebus Foundation to discuss key considerations for building productive working relationships with authors.

Posted on May 23rd, 2022

Pub101: Memorandums of Understanding

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Pub101 is a free, informal, online orientation to open textbook publishing. This May 11, 2022, session is hosted by  Heather Caprette of Cleveland State University. Heather is joined by guest speaker Carla Myers from Miami University Libraries who talks about memorandums of understanding as communication tools in OER publication management.

Posted on May 13th, 2022

Celebrating a Decade of the Open Textbook Library: Founder Dave Ernst Shares the Library's Story

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Dave Ernst is the Executive Director of the Open Education Network and Founder of the Open Textbook Library. For the library’s 10-year milestone, Dave reflects on challenges overcome and the goals ahead.

Posted on May 5th, 2022

Pub101: Call for Proposals

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Pub101 is a free, informal, online orientation to open textbook publishing. This May 4, 2022, session is hosted by Amanda  Larson of Ohio State University. Amanda is joined by guest speaker Karen Bjork from Portland State University who explores the call for proposals as a means to inform and communicate your program design, and as a first opportunity to communicate programmatic capacity and author expectations.

Posted on May 5th, 2022

Pub101: Publishing Models

Pub101 is a free, informal, online orientation to open textbook publishing. This April 27, 2022, session is hosted by hosted by Christina Trunnell from Montana State University. Christina is joined by guest speaker Amanda  Larson of Ohio State University who shares her insights on publishing program development approaches and much more.

Posted on May 3rd, 2022

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